What If?Are you living your best life? I met a delightful young person this week who would say yes tothis question. He travels extensively, has a job that many would dream of and has over amillion followers through social media; yet we found ourselves in a field chatting about faith.The funny thing is, it was the most natural thing in the world at that moment, and eventhough the conversation needed to end as he was catching a train to London, neither of uswanted it to finish!I spoke to someone older recently too, and a similar conversation took place. I remembersaying to both, ‘There’s much more to being human beings than we realise there is.’Being human is the most wonderful simple but complicated mystery – how do we define whowe are, why we are, where we are?They don’t teach this in schools as far as I remember, or college or university. It seems to methis is something we learn through living the experience of our lives. Piecing together the upsand downs, the traumas, the celebrations, the humdrum day to day things we learn to dealwith. Key to this is time to reflect on those things – but sadly very few of us do.What if Jesus came to the earth to learn what it’s like to be human? What if the One whocreated humans wanted to understand his creation? What if God realised that what hemade needed help to understand themselves and why they were created in the first place?What if we are failing to live the best life we could?‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassion never fails.They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.’ In a time of fear and overwhelmingchange, (circa 586 BC) the prophet Jeremiah wrote these words to a people who werestruggling because they were human. These words are not empty words, written to bring alittle reassurance but words of truth from a man who heard from God and spoke on Hisbehalf, words of promise that gave hope.If you are struggling with simply being human, is it time you reached out and sought the Onewho understand you better than you understand you?We are ‘fearfully and wonderfully’ made, wouldn’t you like to explore what that means?Wouldn’t you like to know what God’s plan is for each of us, for this world, for your childrenand their children?What if – God is real? As real as You…Veronica. x
